Increased flexion position of the femoral component reduces the flexion gap in total knee arthroplasty

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1092-1096

  Matziolis, Georg ^a   Hube, Robert ^b   Perka, Carsten ^a   Matziolis, Doerte ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b OCM Klinik   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alignment; Flexion gap; Flexion position; Implant design; Total knee arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FEMUR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; KNEE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE PROSTHESIS; METHODOLOGY; NOMOGRAM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMUR; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NOMOGRAMS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84861344985     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-011-1704-9     Document Type: Article

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